Thanks To Boston Dynamics, Robots Can Open Doors Now

posted by RJ Johnson - @rickerthewriter -
5 days ago

Continuing a rich tradition of ignoring pretty much every warning in every Artificial Intelligence movie ever, Boston Dynamics has unveiled their latest robot which will certainly doom the human race to a lifetime inside the Matrix.

The robotics company, owned by SoftBank (thankfully, Cyberdyne and SkyNet have nothing to do with this), released video of its latest four-legged creation on Monday.

The footage shows one of the company's standard model Spot Mini robots moving its way through a room, until reaching a door, where thankfully, it seems unable to open (much to the relief of the human prey it was most likely pursuing).

Unfortunately for humanity, Boston Dynamics (in its infinite wisdom), created a new robot that has articulated joints, and grip, allowing it the ability to open doors.

Like something out of Black Mirror, the Spot Mini Robot pauses at the door, and then turns, as if to call his new friend, who managed to open the door using its weird hand-head hybrid thing.